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Boies Is Using the Wrong Venue for Changing Marriage

Updated July 23, 2009 6:54 p.m. ET

Regarding David Boies’s “Gay Marriage and the Constitution” (op-ed, July 20): I think gay marriage is inevitable and will become legal and commonplace, and that we’ll look back on efforts to block it with much the same attitude we now have toward racial segregation or not allowing women to vote. However, I’m not sure it would be good for a court to overturn the ballot measure, Proposition 8. I would rather see it overturned by another ballot measure, as I think it will be, the next time it’s put up for a vote. Polls indicate people are rapidly accepting the idea that two people who are already “married” in almost...